Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemma 1.1 2b IT
Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 1.1 2b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 1.1 2b IT in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads 30.8 to 10.7.
- Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 29.3 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 16 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1034 |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | 17.7% |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | 23.3% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1005 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1047 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 970 |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 988 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1012 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 944 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 899 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 990 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 992 |
Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1003 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1022 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 998 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 959 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemma 1.1 2b IT?
Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 1.1 2b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemma 1.1 2b IT better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (29.6 vs 30.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 1.1 2b IT share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16.